Time Warner Cable Inc has had its main website for its cable service hacked and left defaced with its embarrassing administration password. The attack has been carried out by members of NullCrew who have announced it on twitter and posted a screen capture to freezepage> Time Warner Cable: supportcenter.timewarnercable.com:8888/sdcxuser/ @youranonnews @thehackersnews @cyber_war_news @anonymousirc @anonymousopsirc @officialhmei7 — NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) March 6,…
Category: Breach Incidents
LinkedIn Wins Dismissal of Privacy Lawsuit in California
Joel Rosenblatt reports: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), the biggest online professional-networking service, won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it failed to follow industry standards and its own promises in encrypting user password information. The lawsuit, filed last year in federal court in San Jose, California, followed the company’s website being hacked and 6.5 million member passwords being posted…
South Korea Court Opens the Door for Unintentional Data Breach Collective Actions Abroad
Nathan A. Schacht comments on the recent ruling in a lawsuit against SK Communications: … According to reports about this case, the focus was on SK Communications’ violation of its duty to protect the personal data of its operations’ subscribers, including their names, dates of birth, cell numbers and social security numbers. Apparently, after an…
Tunisian Cyber Army Spree of Attacks on Financial Sites
Last month a hacker using the handle @TN_cyberarmy who goes by the team or group name of Tunisian Cyber Army had been on a small spree of attacks on financial based websites. The attacks range from a bank in America to two master card websites being exposed as having XSS exploits in them which are still…
lulzsec.com Sub domain hacked or was it
Updated: Sub domain has been taken over by the FBI, see below. Today i was alerted to a hack by a group of old school hackers from the late 90’s who have left a sub domain of the well known hacker collective lulzsec hacked. The attack appears to be a DNS attack as well as…
SCDOR wins one in court
More good news for the state of South Carolina: a judge has dismissed a lawsuit against them filed by former state Sen. John Hawkins over their massive hack in 2011. Although the ruling is not yet available online, Meg Kinnard of Associated Press reports: In an order obtained by The Associated Press, Circuit Judge G. Thomas…